This is my favorite snowboarding game of all time, still to this day. It's not perfect, by far, courses are way too short, some physics are unrealistic, but the feeling when carving in powdered snow, and your rider slowly gets covered in white, the wild life in the mountain, the nice selection of background music, there's a ton of detail in this game that goes beyond the trick extravaganza that the SSX series is. 1080 Avalanche is doing its best to make you feel like you are living all of it. And yeah the avalanche levels weren't necessary, but how fun are they? I wish Nintendo would resurrect this license someday. Oh man, I wish.